The Race to the Big Bang: #RWYK Certified Great Read

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The Race to the Big Bang by Peter Solomon: #RWYK Certified Great Read – Book Review

Congratulations to Peter Solomon!

The Race to the Big Bang, the sequel to his first book The Stardust Mystery is now our certified great read!

 

LET’S HAVE A LOOK AT THE BOOK BLURB

The Race to the Big BangIn The Race to the Big Bang illustrated science adventure book, the sequel to The Stardust Mystery, the Cosmic Kids return from a wonderful trip to the moon only to discover their lives drastically altered by the Covid-19 pandemic. They find relief by inventing new pandemic pastimes. The best pastime of all is a new contest called The Race to the Big Bang with a grand prize of $1 million in cash and $1 million in college scholarships. The four Cosmic Kids and coach Grandpa form a new team, the Cosmic Explorers, with two new coaches and their friends and last year’s contest winners Jackson and Johari. Neddy invites her friend Richie to join them too. They are going to compete in a new series of Virtual World adventures and believe their team’s previous success in using the Virtual World to time travel will give them a huge advantage.

As they time travel to the Big Bang, they discover unusual things on Earth, in the solar system, and in the universe. They help prove the Big Bang theory by measuring the distance to a nearby galaxy and prove Albert Einstein’s Twin Paradox with Lizzy’s long solo round trip voyage to our closest star. After four years of travel, Lizzy returns to discover her younger sister Neddy is now her older sister. Neddy loves that.

The Cosmic Explorers turn a planet they have found seven billion years ago into their space station by adding the events that made Planet Earth habitable. They add water by redirecting comets to hit their planet, they create an oxygen atmosphere using cyanobacteria brought from Earth, and they plant vegetation for food from seeds also from Earth.

Their brilliant ideas have some unintended consequences that are both wonderful and awful. Finally, they end their adventure by creating videos to help other kids understand how the Covid-19 virus infects people and how a vaccine can keep everyone safe. With this new project, they learn how the cells in their bodies are factories that can fabricate substances based on pieces of genetic code.

 

About the Author

Peter Solomon, Ph.D., scientist and entrepreneur, is devoted to passing on his love for the many wonderful science stories to the younger generation. The birth of his twelfth grandchild was the inspiration for his first book and the STARDUST MYSTERY project which has created companion video games, science videos, and Expert Avatars that will answer questions about their lives and work. The theme of the Stardust Mystery story is: We are made of STARDUST that was once in the body of Albert Einstein and the last T-Rex. That is true. We each have more than 300 trillion carbon atoms that once belonged to and were exhaled by Einstein and more than 5,000 trillion that were once in each T-Rex that roamed the Earth. And those atoms were created in the end-of-life explosions of stars. This new book set in the coronavirus pandemic continues that story. The same child characters make the best of their new life constraints and enter a new contest, The Race to the Big Bang. They, and hopefully the reader, will learn lots of new science. Peter lives in Connecticut with his wife Sally Moshein Solomon. Sally and Peter have had their vaccine shots and are now visiting with their grandchildren again.

Here’s Our Review

Inspire a love of science in your young reader with our latest certified great read, The Race to the Big Bang written by devoted science author Peter Solomon. It is a sequel to his first book The Stardust Mystery which was published in 2020. The book comprises 23 chapters and is suitable for ages 8 to 14. This wonderful book won first place as the Best STEM Children’s book in 2021 in the Purple Dragonfly Book Awards (dragonflybookawards.com) sponsored by Story Monsters LLC.

The Race to the Big Bang follows Cosmic Kids, a group of four cousins and their grandfather who take part in a national science contest.  Cosmic kids had just returned from a wonderful trip to the moon as a reward for their second-place finish in the Science and the Future Contest. But then their lives are turned upside down by the Covid-19 pandemic. Schools for more than 168 million children globally are completely closed for almost an entire year due to COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020. This forced their families to come up with inventive ways to keep young children engaged and entertained. Cosmic kids were over the moon to find out about a new contest called The Race to the Big Bang. The grand prize is $1 million in cash and $1 million in college scholarships. This gives birth to a new team named Cosmic Explorers comprising four Cosmic Kids and coach Grandpa, with two new coaches and their friends and last year’s contest winners Jackson and Johari. Cosmic Explorers must participate in a new series of Virtual World adventures. They have to design one of the best space stations to travel to the Big Bang. Throughout the book, kids discover unusual things on Earth, in the solar system, and in the universe. Cosmic Kids also explain the science behind how we can become infected by the Covid-19 virus, and how a vaccine can keep us safe.
Kids will learn some interesting non-fiction science concepts including the big bang theory, how our solar system was formed, how life on Earth began in the oceans and moved to land, what happened to the dinosaurs and how humans evolved from apes to explore and build communities all over the planet … and even travel to space.

 

The Race to the Big Bang will keep kids entertained while educating!

 

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